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On this day in . . .


1795, Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention)

1824, Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic

1830, creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands

1853, the Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia

1883, the first run of the Orient Express

1895, the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island

1927, Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore

1940, meeting between Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass

1941, Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post

1957, the Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth

1958, the Fifth Republic of France is established. ALSO: The first trans-Atlantic passenger jetliner service was begun by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) with flights between London and New York

1983, Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada

1993, the Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside

1997, the second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken

2001, Rickey Henderson homered to pass Ty Cobb and become baseball's career leader in runs scored with 2,246 during San Diego's 6-3 win over Los Angeles

2003, a female practitioner of that "religion of peace", shouting praises to Allah, blows herself up at the Maxim restaurant in Haifa, Israel. 21 were killed, including three children and a baby girl. Another 60 were wounded. The bomber was a 29-year-old lawyer from Jenin

2004, SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space

2008, the U.S. Labor Department announced the United States lost 159,000 jobs in September, the most in five years

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